Improved



PATENT OFFICE,

JONATHAN WHITE, OF ANTRIM, NEW` HAMPSHIRE.

IIVIPROVED PPLEEPARERs Spceiiication forming part of Letters Patent No.35,482, dated June 3, 1862.

.To a/ZZ whom itf may concern.- l Y Be it known that I, JONATHAN WHITE,a citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of Antrim, in the county of Hillsborough and State of NewHampshire, have invvented a new and useful or Improved Machine Figure lis a top view, and Fig. 2 a side` elevation, of such machine.

In the drawings, A denotes a furcated apple mandrel or arbor as`supported by a vibratory frame or lever, B, in such manner as to becapable of being freely revolved by the action of a train of gears, a bc. The gear a is a spurgear fixed on the arbor or mandrel A and made toengage with the spur-gear b, which is attached to the side of a beveledgear, c, that works in a beveled sector, d. The two gears b c revolvefreely on one journal, projecting from the frame B, and having a handle,C, ex tended from it.

The lever-frame Bplays on a center pin, d', by which the said frame isconnected with a clamping-frame, D, which supports the beveled toothedsector d, this latter beingarranged on such frame D, as shown in thedrawings. The frame D is provided with a clampingscrew, E, for fasteningit to a table, and, furthermore, such frame supports a vibratory leveror arm, F, which at its lower end turns on a pin, e. This arm is drawntowardthe fork f of the mandrel A by means of a spring,

Y g, and carries on its upper end a knife stock or frame, G, whichsupports a knife, h, and turns freely in a horizontal direction on thearm F through the sector of circle of about one hundred and fiftydegrees. Furthermore,

y a cam, i, and a stop, 1c, are arranged on and made to project from theframe B, as shown in the drawings.

In the operation of my said machine the frame B is to be movedfrom oneend of the toothed sector to the other. This will impart to theapplemandrel A a compound motionthat is, it will cause it not only torevolve on its axis, but to move around in the sector of a circle, andthereby impart such a motion to an apple when fixed on the prongs 0rfork of the arbor as will cause the knife to cut or remove its peel in aspiral extending from the stem to the eye of the apple, or thereabout.During retraction of the frame B the cam 'i will be brought against thearm F, and will move it so as to force the knife frame or holder againsttheG stop k, and thereby cause the said holder to be turned about on thearm, so as to stand at about a right angle to the mandrel. In this waythe knife-holder will be properly set or adjusted, in order not onlythat an apple after having been pared may be removed from the fork ofthe mandrel, but another apple to be pared may be fixed thereon and theknife be in a proper position to commence the paring of it on the nextforward movement of the frame B.

l I do not claim a furcated rotary shaft and a knife-stock so combinedand arranged that while the shaft may be put in rotation the knife-stockmay be moved around in or about in a Semicircular path, so as to pressagainst an apple when xed on the shaft and effect the paring of suchapple, such being the well-known way of making various, if not all, theother appleparers heretofore in use.

I claim-- My improved apple-paring machine, made substantially asdescribed--viz., not only with its paring-tool h or the stock G thereofapplied to a vibratory arm, F, (controlled by a spring or itsequivalent,) and with its apple-mandrel A supported by a vibratoryframe, B, but with a stationary toothed sector, d, and a train of gears,a I) c, and with a cam, fi, and stop 7c, the

whole being so as to operate substantially in the manner and for thepurpose as specified.

JONATHAN WHITE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, J r.

